Oh wow, how annoying is a blog post that starts with “it’s been awhile since I last posted” or some such words. Occupy is over, it’s finally freezing cold here in NYC, and the Modern PTQ Season is fast approaching.
While I haven’t been able to play much Magic at all lately, aside from consistently losing Innistrad drafts every Friday, I’ve been testing a lot with what appears to be the best combo deck in the Modern format:
4 Island
1 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Shivan Reef
1 Steam Vents
2 Sulfur Falls
4 Desperate Ravings
4 Desperate Ritual
2 Empty the Warrens
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Grapeshot
4 Manamorphose
3 Past in Flames
4 Pyretic Ritual
3 Pyromancer Ascension
4 Seething Song
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard
4 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Dispel
3 Echoing Truth
3 Lightning Bolt
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Telemin Performance
Combo is always my default choice for constructed, since you’re doing something that a lot of decks just can’t stop, at least game one. Also, it plays to my natural inclination to avoid interacting with people.
This is basically card for card what everyone is playing on Magic Online, which is always a good starting place before I go changing cards and making it not work anymore. I’ve found the deck to be surprisingly consistent for a turn four win, although you usually don’t need to do so. A lot of times I’ll storm out with Manamorphoses and Probes a bit and Grapeshot their board in order to buy a bunch of turns to get a better hand.
One card I really want in the deck is Peer Through Depths. Ravings can be pretty insane setting things up and stocking your graveyard, but I think with how far that card digs it’s likely just better. It also makes beating sideboard cards much easier, since you’re more likely to find your Echoing Truth or Dispel in time for their Ethersworn Canonist or Mindbreak Trap.
Telemin Performance is hilarious tech for the mirror, and really makes me want to play Phage the Untouchable as the next level tech, which I haven’t seen in any lists, probably because it’s just not a good idea. Stars have to align somewhat for you to live the dream, since they have to actually be playing Telemin, draw it (usually two of) and have you not draw your Phage. Probably just playing a Snapcaster Mage would foil their Performance plan and still be useful to draw. Still though, I can cast her off of double Manamorphose…
I hate Leylines, especially in a format without Brainstorm, and likely will not be playing them for real. Blanking discard is nice and all, but I’m already down a card now, and want to kill myself every time I draw another Leyline.
All in all a pretty awesome deck, and one I’ll probably go 5-2 at every PTQ and get 9th on tiebreakers, as I’ve done three times in the past. The deck seems insane, but it’s getting so much press lately that I’m not sure it’s a great choice. The first PTQ is this month, the 21st in Brooklyn, so we shall see.
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